Creators & Educators

CEO and Co-founder of Mistral AI

Former Google DeepMind research scientist building European open-weights foundation models, Pixtral vision models, and Le Chat.

Chief AI Scientist at Meta, Silver Professor of Computer Science at NYU

Turing Award laureate recognized as one of the godfathers of deep learning for inventing Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and championing open science.

CEO and Co-founder of Google DeepMind, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry

Pioneering computer scientist and neuroscientist who co-founded DeepMind, developed AlphaGo and AlphaFold, and leads Google's Gemini models.

Chief Scientific Advisor at Amii & Father of Reinforcement Learning

Richard Sutton is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Alberta and author of the authoritative textbook 'Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction' and the famous essay 'The Bitter Lesson'.

CEO and Co-founder of Anthropic

Former VP of Research at OpenAI leading Anthropic's development of Claude, Constitutional AI, and empirical scaling laws.

CEO and Co-founder of Hugging Face

Champions open-source machine learning and collaborative open science, building the world's most popular hub for models, datasets, and spaces.

CEO and Co-founder of Modular, Creator of Swift, LLVM, and Mojo

Legendary systems architect who created LLVM, Clang, and Swift at Apple, MLIR at Google, and now Mojo—the AI systems programming language.

Co-founder of Anthropic & Pioneer of Mechanistic Interpretability

Chris Olah is renowned for opening the 'black box' of neural networks through mechanistic interpretability, visual circuits research, and founding Distill.pub.

Research Scientist at Allen Institute for AI & Author of Interconnects

Nathan Lambert leads post-training and RLHF evaluation research at AI2 (Allen Institute for AI) on the open-source OLMo and TÜLU models, publishing the technical blog Interconnects.

Co-founder & CEO of Cohere

Aidan Gomez is the Co-founder and CEO of Cohere and a co-author of 'Attention Is All You Need'. Cohere builds frontier multilingual enterprise LLMs and reranking models.

Host of the Lex Fridman Podcast, MIT Research Scientist

Interviews global leaders across artificial intelligence, robotics, physics, and history. Conducts in-depth multi-hour conversations with premier AI researchers.

Turing Award Winner, Founder & Scientific Director of Mila

Yoshua Bengio is a pioneering computer scientist honored with the Turing Award for deep learning advances. He founded Mila (Quebec AI Institute) and is a leading international voice on AI safety governance.